THE father of a hit-and-run victim said he is ‘unimpressed’ with politicians using his daughter’s name in a campaign to create a British ‘bill of rights’.

Failed asylum seeker Aso Mohammed Ibrahim was illegally driving a car when he hit and killed Amy Houston in Blackburn in 2003.

Her father Paul Houston, from Darwen, has campaigned for his deportation back to Iraq ever since.

But earlier this year two High Court judges threw out an appeal by the UK Border Agency to overturn a decision allowing Ibrahim, 33, to stay, on the grounds he has fathered two children in this country.

And now Conservative MP Esther McVey has urged the government to bring in a British bill of rights to help challenge decisions made under the Human Rights Act, ensuring that once an asylum seeker has served a prison term for a crime they are deported.

But Mr Houston, has urged politicians to stop ‘talk’ and called on them to take some ‘real action’.

He said: “I have mixed feelings about things like this because on the one hand I welcome anyone who will stand up and say something.

“But on the other hand it is bittersweet for me because it is like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted — I have to question why people are doing this and I genuinely hope it is because they want to achieve justice for the British people and regain control of our borders.”

Ms McVey, MP for Wirral West, asked Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to look into the bill.

She said: “Is it not about time that we introduced a British bill of rights to address ludicrous cases such as that of the convicted foreign killer Mohammed Ibrahim, who is avoiding deportation by claiming the right to family life, even though he killed Amy Houston, thereby denying all her relatives the right to family life?”

The deputy prime minister said the government had set up a commission to look at whether a UK Bill of Rights could overrule the European Convention on Human Rights.